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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23
Are All Things Ready?

Tho winter months are over and gone.
Wintry weather, of course, will lnger
for time. Doubtless we shall yet have
some sharp northwesters, mayhap, some
snow storms, some frozen ground ana
lei cles, despite tho ground hogs deter
mination to break up camp and begin his
Journey. But the sun is mounting high
er and higher every day i'll tho heavens
to shine upon the earth with more direct
and quickcEing rays, and very soon aii
traces of the "ruler Of the inverted year
will have vanished from around us.
Fine spring weather will be with us soon,
bringing all it's gladdcning sights and
sounds 10 cheer us and to renew our
hopes and aspirations, and to stimulate to
great efforts to make their realization pos
sible.
Farmers, are all things ready that you
may take due advantage of the golden
opportunities at hand? Are the wagons
and carts in good condition for hauling ?
Are the plows in order with new, sharp
points and shares to start into the FROST
looscned fields? Are the harrow teeth
sllarpened? Has the harness been over
hauled and oiled? Have the compost
heaps, the sure banks you are ere long
to draw upon, been looked over and
made fine for use? And the various
seeds you will need-are they all ready
for casting in at the appointed times?
A timely start, and the right KIND OF
start, and tho battle is half won. Sys-
tenn, method and perseverance to keep
the work we'll begun all the time in ad-
vance will accomplish the rest.
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The Young Pigs.

I fyour foresight and management were
good at the beginning of winter, you
ought by this time 10 have young pigs In
the pen. OF course, you had due regard
to choice of breeds and other important
conditions; and now, for the race to
make big, profitable hogs. Let them
have comfortable quarters. Shield them
from the cold March winds and provide
dry beds. Feed the mothers rich slops
of milk and bran, with occasionally corn
unground. Cut for them green rye and
clover when in season. At eight or ten
weeks old wean the pigs and feed hber-
ally Of fattening foods i'll variety. Hur-
ry them up. Keep them growing, so as
to get them to market Oh into the pork
tub before Christmas. Then they ought
to average OF least a pound day from
the time Of farrowing. Cold weather
does not promote the laying on of fat.
Once the idea prevailed among farmers
generally, that this springs pigs should
be summered and wintered, and sum
mcred again. and butchered the next
fall. Farmers, nowadays, are coming to
find out that such a course involved a
great deal of unnecessary breeding as
we'll as labor. Store pigs, as they were
called, have had their day.
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The boy or girl who is regular news
paper reader will grow up in intelligence
and will use good language both in
speaking and writing, even with limit
ed education. 1t is news, science, litera-
ture, grammar, history, geography and
spelling combined.
1t may be interesting to many of our
readers to know that the limited OF age
for entering tho free schools has been
changed from Is to Is years. This will
admit many that have been prohibited
heretofore from attending tho public
school.
The Rev. J. w. Wolling and wife, mis-
sionaries to Brazil, will sail from New
port News March 10. A farewell meet
ing has been arranged by the presiding
elder of Norfork District, Virginia Con-
erencc.
William Paxton, of Lancaster county,
S. g., a veteran Of the Mexican war, de-
spairing OF receiving pension, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself to tree
near his house.
Rev. j. B. Hamilton, a supernumer-
airy member of the Tennessee Confer
ence, died at his residence in Nashville
on Monday morning, March IA.
The new Methodist church at Greer's
IS soon to be raised. 1t will be forty by
sixty feet in size.
Bethany Presbyterian Sunday school,
the largest in Philadelphia, has 2,546
scholars.
Mr.. j. G. Hunt of Laurens village, and
Miss Estelle Griffin, formerly Mrs. Lin
ticum, were married at Waterloo last
Thursday.
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One-half million temperance tracts ir

One-half million temperance tracts ir
the German and Scandinavian languages
have just been published by the Nat
Foreign Department of w. G. T. U
They have also Tracts in the Polish, Uol.
land, Italian, Bohemian and Spanish
languages, and it is hoped that every
church and Temperance Society will SEND
for some ut once for distribution. a sam.
pie package will be sent for 10 cents and
1000 pages for one dollar. Address all
orders to Natl Dept. Of Foreign Work
Lock Box S37, Minneapolis, Mimi.
Plant early peas in light loam. The
extra early kinds do not amount to
much. A few early potatoes may be put
in. Early Rose and Beauty Of Hebron
are good kinds if they can be got pure.
Finish trimming the grape vines, make
the soil all around them mellow with the
hoe, but do not injure the roots, and il
you would have the large luscious
punches of fruit next summer and au-
tumn, fcrtilize well with compost Of fine
barn-yard scrapings and ground bohe.
On the warm days occurring now and
chen among the cold and disagreeable
ones if it be necessary for the laborer in
his outdoor work to take off his coat, let
him not forget to put it on just as soon as
his work is done. The prccaution will
save him cold, or rheumatic pains.
Neglect in tho matter has been fatal to
many man. Beware of cooling off too
suddenly.
The Aikem Record, which is an organ
of the extreme prohibition sentiment or
the State, edtorially declares that the
temperance women of the South should
leave tho Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union in the face of its declaration
for woman suffrage and do their work in
the Sons of Temperance or Good Temp
lar organizations.
A rooster OH tho place of Mrs. Il. M.
Smith in Rcd Oak fell into well and re-
maincd there for sixteen days before it
was discovered and taken out. The bird
is q regular DIR. Tanner and is now strut
ting about in good health, and crows as
Justify as if he had never experienced so
long a fast.-Bu1n,CcU Sentinel.
1t gives u5 pleasure to announce that
the condition Of our venerable Book
Agent, DR.. j. b. McFearin, has decidedly
for the better, during the last
few days. His convalescence, though
slow, may new bo confidently
expected. lie is enjoying great spiritual
peace.
An anarchist is would be gentleman
Of leisure that wants money, but don't
want to work for it. A prosclyter is
cumberer in the vineyard who wants
but either does not know how
DR. is too lazy to work for them-in other
words, he is q convert thief-IHc High
cdy.
IT is thought that the fruit has been killed
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The Public Schools.
OFFICE OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONER

OFFICE OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONER,
ABBEYILLE, S. c., Feb. Z, 1887.
THE County Board of Examiners, togethe
| with the concurrence OF the County
School Trustees, have decided that the month
ly pay Of teachers shall be for the prcsen
year as follows:
First Grade-Twenty Dollars.
Second Grade-Fiftecn Dollars.
Third Grade-Ten Dollars.
That tho minimum average number of pu
pills per month that shall entitle teacher t
full pay in county schools will be fifteen Q5)
In the incorporated towns and villages TWEEN
ty (20) pupils. In the event where the average
number Of pupils of lawful agc fall!
below the minimum, the Trustees will pay {:
per capita share Of the monthly pay. The du
Ties of the School Trustees being so fully Sc
forth IN the School Law, "a copy of which viii
be furnished to every Trustee on demand al
the School Commissioners office) 1t is unnec
essary to make any suggestions as to the man
agement and rules Of the Public Schools, more
than refer them TO the following sections o.
the School Law. viz: Sections 1910 10l1, 1912
1919 and Section |, page q, Gan Act to limit
the ages OF persons attending the free public
sch hoolS): and to enjOln upon them the i'm.
pOrtance Of the faithful execution Of this por.
tion of tho school law.
Having now assumed the responsible duties
of the office of School Comm isSioner and the
great work of educating the masses, l respect
fully ask the assistance OF the various Boards
Of School Trustees of the county in accom-
plishng this object, and also their hearty CO.
operation in dispensing the school fund Judi
ciously and profitably, so rs to reach every
pupil entitled to it within the limits of the
county. j.. COWAN,
School Commissioner A. c.
Feb. l6. 1887 At
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An Excellent WhiteWaSh.

Take a half bushel of unslack lime
slack it with boiling water, keeping il
covered to retain the heat; strain
through a course wire strainer; dis
solve peck of clean salt in water
add the liquid only, boil three pounds
of ground rice to a thin paste stir this
in, boiling hot; dissolve half pound
of clear glue by soaking it we'll and
suspending it in small vessel inside
of another vessel containing boiling
water; add this. Now add four or
five gallons of hot water to the mix
ture; stir it we'll; set it aside for four
or five days. carefully covering to ex-
clude dust and dirt. When ready for
use, heat; if too thick, add boiling wa
ter. It will not be apt to be too thin.
1t should be applied hot: Different
shades may be secured by the addition
of spanish brown, lampblack, yellow
ochre, Venetian red, etc. .; anything
but green, which will not work with
lime,
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What Others Say.
(Dr. GdLnlerS.)

The only popularity worth aspiring
after is peaceful popularity-the pop
ularity of the hearf-tho popularity
that is won in the bosom of families,
and at the side of death-beds. There
is another, high, and far-sounding
popularity, which is, indeed, most
worthless article, felt by all who have
it most to be greatly more oppressive
than gratilying-a popularity of state,
and pressure, and animal heat, and
whole tribe of other annoyances which
it brings around the person Of it's un-
fortunate victim-a popularity which
rifles home of its sweets, and, by Gle
waiting a man above his fellows, places
him in a region of desolation, where
the intimacies of human fellowship
are unfelt, and where he stands con-
spicuous mark for the shafts of malice,
and envy, and detraction-a populari-
ty which, with its head among thorns,
and its feet OH the treacherous quick
sands has nothing to lull the agonies
of its .tottering existence but the ho-
sannahs of driveling generation.
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.lBostOn AdvertiseT.l

If general agreement could be en-
tered into by enlightened nations OF
the modern world to turn their cannon
into sewer-pipes and their torpedoes in
to glycerine soap, it would be hui
name and economical conversion. A
reserve of powder and shot might be
stored up with which to enlighten At
RIGA and suppress anarchy. But a
general disarming might surely be ef-
fected with benefit to the world. Such
a disarming must come to pass volun-
tarily or be enforced some day. For,
the spending of national subsistence
on war machinery is in truth folly
and q sin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

Yhe United States Supreme Court has
Just decided that a State cannot place q
tax on drum mers from other State; that
this power is vested in Congress, which
alone has power to regulate interstate
commerce. This decision will mater
tally reduce the revenues Of large num-
ber Of States.
The Mauna Loa volcano in the Sand
wich Islands is in eruption, ard stream
Of lava flowed several miles to the sea in
two days.
The BaraVel Sentinel Is thirty-five
years old.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

Fifty thousand tons of SCOT were ia
ken from the London chimneys last
year. Its value as fertilizer was sci
at $204,000
Al the recent municipal election in
Boston S7S women voted.
Mr.. James w. Tradewill, Columbia
died, March II, 1887.
Look after the healthy condition of the
laying hens. See that their housee are
frequently cleaned out, we'll sprinkled
with carbolic acid and thoroughly fumi-
gated with sulphur, if you would guard
against cholera and other diseases. Be-
side you will need every pound of the
scrapings to mix with that compost bank
Of "heavy artillery" for the prospective
crops OF soiling corn. Carbolic acid
costs about thirty cents quart and flour
of sulphur about ten cents pound.
The London Methodist Times declares
that there is All "ominous lack Of local
preachers" in the Wesleyan Connection.
1t says there are 10000 pulpits, and only
l5,OJO local preachers. This, it declares,
''is far below the proportion of other
days. The stream that feeds both our
ministry and our pulpits is slowiy dry
ing up. That is the darkest spot i'll the
Methodist horizon, and everybody
should facs it at once"
The press and people of Newfound.
land are discussing the benefits of an
neNation to the United States, and it is
said if it were submitted to the people it
would be carried by a three-fourths
majority.
About o'clock Wednesday morning,
March 16, fire broke out in Leggett's
Hotel at Lanrinburg, n. c., and the
building and contents we've destroyed.
The inmates barely escaped in their night
clothes. Loss estimated at $4,000; in
surance at half that sum.
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Two fine Varieties, Of field seed corn-one
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Most any article, likely to be wanted, in the
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A new lot Of Electric razors" just open, II
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rv,uEsE WORKS WERE ESTABLISHED In
/ 1S47 by Messrs. Geo. Sinclair and james An
derson and purchased by me In the year 1886, and
from that time till now carried on successfully by
rnysel. NV friends and customers will bear witness
fthe large and stupendous iubs executed by Inc. II
was Mt INV works where the largest and almost only
lob of It's class executed in this city was done
viz: the making Of the pipes for the City Water
Works in the year 1885, -
Nv stock OF patterns for ARCHITECTURAL
work COLUMNS for Store fronts is large and
various. and in RAILINGS for Balconies, Gardens,
and Cemeteries have the largest variety and most
modern patterns; many of these are patented and
have purchased the right for this State
In the machine line can furnish my patrons with
STEAM ENGINES and BOILERS of any size and
description, Ny CIRCULAR SAW MILLS have
carried off the prize at every State Fair held in this
city and in their construction have taken pains to
combine simplicity with the most useful modern i'm
proyements, and may fatter myself that my CIRCU-
LAR SAW MILLS find favor with every sawyer who
understands his business.
The many orders am steadily receiving for SU-
GAR CANE MILLS prove that the public appreciate
the mills of my make, and so 1t is with my GEAR.
ING for HORSE POWERS. GIN WHEELS, GR1ST
MILLS and other MACHINERY.
have the manufacturing rights Of many PAT
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| will be pleased to send MY circulars to any appli-
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moderate, and assure the public that they are
lower than those OF Northern manufacturers, and
that my work will compare favoraby with that Of any
other maker. Address
John Alexander,
CoNGAREE IRON WORKS. Columbia, S. c.
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The kind of Pumpkins for Feeding.

If you have determined to grow pump
llins this season for your dairy, let no
one inveigle you with the recommenda-
ton to plant the mammoth varieties" /"
from one hundred to one hun
dred and fifty pounds. These are not the
kinds you want. They will make long
rambling vines, and now and then -
good-sized pumpkin. Plant the "com-
mon field pumpkins" and no others.
Leave the new tangled sorts for the
omotonr trrowarS
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I Wish.

Said the first little chicken,
With a queer little squirm,
"Oh, I wish / could find
A fat little worm."
Said the next little chicken,
With an odd little shrug,
IL wish could find
A fat little bug"
Said the third little chicken,
With a sharp little squeal,
"Oh, wish / could find
Some nice yellow meal"
Said the fourth little chicken,
With a small sigh Of grief,
81 wish could find
A green little leaf"
Said the fifth little chicken,
With a faint little moan,
"Oh, l wish / could find
A wee gravel stone"
"Now see here" said the mother
From the green garden patch,
"1f you want any breakfast,
You just come and scratch"
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Maine AbeIishes Capital Punishment.

AUGUSTA, Me-. March Is The repeal
of the capital punishment law is eff
fected, and imprisonment for life is sub
stitutcd for death in all cases of murder
in the first degree. Such convicts, how
ever, are to be kept in close confinement,
away from all associations, and no par
doning power is left to Governor and
counsel, unless the convict is proved in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

We learn that the County Teachers Asso-
ciation. OF Newberry will meet at Prosperity
on April We see nothing OF anything
about the pay Of Teachers. This seems most
extraordinary. We think the past meetings
OF the County Associations have not been
derelict in this particular.
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Life Lessons.

cart thou growing weary hearted
With the strife that will not cease?
Dost thou think thy soul hath parted,
For all time, with Joy and peace?
"Think not this. Though tolls environ
Others have the same withstood;
'Tis by constant blows that iron
Grows more powerful for good.
"Every tree is fuller fruited
For the wound OF pruning-shears;
Every tree Is firmer rooted,
For the tempests of the years.
"If the fire that burns thee sorely
BE indeed q fiery cross,
II refines thee, slowly, surely,
Cleansing all the gold of dross."
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Pumpkins for Cows.

A farmer writes from Fairfax coun.
ty, Va: "To-day, February 10th, fed the
last of my crop OF two hundred pump.
kins to my buttor COWS. They have
been valuable supplement to the other
feeding materials. 1 believe they inn
proved the quantity and increased the
quality Of the butter. The cows certain
ly relished them. I shall plant largely
Of them the coming season."
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Questions for Teachers.

We respectfully suggest to the County
Teachers Association that at it's next
meeting, or some convenient meeting
thereafter, it discuss these questions:
1st. How long should school term
be?
End. Would it not be better for the
school board 10 first fix the school term,
and then fix the salaries accordingly?
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The Free Schools.

From, the Presentn,ent of the Laurens COUNTY
Grand Jury.
We would suggest to the County
School Commissioner the necessity of q
better and more perfect organization Of
the free school system. The irregularity
OF taking in and turning out is observa-
BILE at most of our public schools, and in
some instances the greatest effort made
on the part of teachers is to kill time and
draw their pay.
Free schools with us may be blessing,
but doubts exist concerning their value,
and if any great benefit has been Derry
ed. it is slow in its deyelopment.
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America is Bound to Shine,

The attention eff the public Is called to the
merits of the Universal Pamade q!
an article recently introduced for the polish
ing OF metals, from the finest gold and silver
1t is q wonder worker, and 1t is bound to be-
come the favorlte with everyone that has ac-
casion to polish metals. Call and get q SAM
pie free. P. 3. Speed.
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"Whonl have | In heaven but thee? an
here is none upon earth that desire besit
hee."-Psalms lXXiii 25
There's only One on whose dear arm
We safely lay our thoughts to rest,
There's only One who knows the depth
OF sorrow in each stricken breast.
There's only One whose pity falls
Like dew upon the wounded heart;
There's only One who never stirs,
Though enemy and friend depart.
There's only One, when none are by,
To wipe away the falling tear:
There's only One TO heal the wound,
And stay the weak ones ttmid fear.
There's only One who understands
And enters into all we feel;
There's only One who views each spring,
And each perplexing wheel in wheel.
There's only One who can support,
And who sufficient grace can give
To bear up under every grief.
And spotless in this world to live.
o blessed Jesus, Friend Of friends!
Come hide us meath thy sheltering arm !;
And while amid this evil world,
Keep us from oil its guilt and harm.
Thou art the One, the only One,
For whom no love too warm can flow;
Thou art the One, the only One,
In whom there's perfect rest below.
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WASH GOODS.

TOSTUME DEBENPELL'S IN
~ CREAM and BLUE STRIPE with
plane to match. ROULE GINGHAMS
in different shades and stripes. BATISTE
in STRIPE and FIGURES. BATISTE
in BLACK PLAIDS and Pink Stripes.
This is beautiful goods for Ladies and
Children. DEORGANDIES in PLAID
STRIPES, in PINK, BLUE, BCRUE,
HELIOTROPE, LAWNS e. MUSLINS.
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Don't PIow till the Soil Is Fit.

It will be we'll for the farmer who
would like to be in advance with his
spring work to put in the plow at every
favorable opportunity. Every acre plow.
ed thus early is good progress made and
so much done toward keeping off too
much press of work by and by, when a
score or more of other things shall de-
mand attention. But do not turn fur
row unless the soil will crumble after the
plow. II it smears like mortar it is not
in good condition to work at. Lands
plowed in such state will sometimes be
the worse for it for dozen years.
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1aEI- -ES
JAMES MEANS S. Shoe.

", l. have tile exclusive sale in Abbeville OF
w the Justly celebrated JAMES MEANS
$500 SHOE" and take pleasure In letting our
friends ard the public know where they can
get the best shoe for $780, This shoe has a
reputation as broad as this continent itself.
If you will try u pair IN LACE BUTTON or
CONGRESS, You will agree with us that 1t is
full value for the money. Buy them once and
you will have no other. All sizes and several
styles always in stock. ~
W. JOEL SMITH & SON.
Jan, 10, 1857, If